Instead of fixating on how much you dread a task, and forcing yourself to do it first, try changing your mindset about the supposedly unpleasant thing you have to do. Decide in advance that performing that job will make you happy, then come up with a list of all the ways that will happen.
Mark Twain is often credited with saying,"Eat a live frog the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." (In truth, that was coined by Nicolas Chamfort and only linked to Mark Twain long after reports of Twain's death were no longer an exaggeration.) Provenance aside, that particular quote has been vigorously adopted in management training, self-help books and motivational speeches for at least the last decade, and it's time we retired it and moved past eating frogs. First off, if I ate a live frog first…